Freedom Party of Afghanistan

The Freedom Party of Afghanistan, also known as Hezb-e Azadi or the Afghanistan Liberation Party, is an Uzbek nationalist party in Afghanistan which was founded in 2001 by Abdul Malik Pahlawan. Pahlawan was an Uzbek warlord who was rivals with fellow Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, and it was essentially a private army which clashed with Dostum's Junbish-i-Milli militia several times since the fall of the Taliban.